Youth swimmers make
their mark for the Makos

Published 1:00 am, Friday, November 19, 2004

Several New Milford athletes offered strong prformances Oct. 30-31 as the Western Connecticut 'Y' Makos swim team kicked off its 2004-05 fall/winter campaign at the Wilton Wahoo Invitational meet.

Nicholas Karadimas
, 12, checked in with excellent finishes while posting state age-group qualifying times in each of his events.

His busy two days featured second place at 32.87 in the 50-yard backstroke, second at 1:09.76 in the 100-yard backstroke, second at 32.38 in the 50-yard butterfly, third at 59.99 in the 100-yard freestyle, fourth at 27.22 in the 50-yard freestyle, sixth at 38.56 in the 50-yard breaststroke, fourth at 1:11.83 in the 100-yard individual medley, and third at 2:32.44 in the 200-yard individual medley.

Carly Strelez
turned in top 16 finishes in multiple events in the girls' 11/12 division.

She was 14th of 92 swimmers at 1:05.47 in the 100-yard freestyle, ninth at 29.91 in the 50-yard freestyle, fifth at 37.99 in the 50-yard breaststroke, 11th at 1:24.17 in the 100-yard breaststroke, 12th at 2:44.71 in the 200-yard individual medley, and 15th at 1:17.71 in the 100-yard individual medley.

Carly also anchored the Makos' 200-yard medley relay to a fifth-place finish and led off the fifth-place 200-yard freestyle relay, which clocked 2:20.64.

Angela Longo
offered her best times while competing inn the girls' 11/12 division.

In the girls' 13/14 age group,
Corinne Sullivan
claimed eighth at 1:13.49 in the 100-yard butterfly and 19th at 3:10.10 in the 200-yard breaststroke.

Abigail Booth swam 29.49 in the 50-yard freestyle for 19th pl¼ace and touched at 1:19.40 in the 100-yard butterfly for 21st place.

Sullivan and Booth combined talents with two teammates to earn third place at 2:10.08 in the 200-yard medley relay. Sullivan swam the butterfly leg and Booth anchored the quartet.

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The Makos'
Emily Covelli
was slated to be honored with five teammates as among the state's top 16 swimmers at last weekend's Connecticut swimming banquet.

The
New Milford High School
pool standout had the 13th fastest time statewide at 25.14 in the 50-yard freestyle last season. Nicholas Karadimas was also feted for posting the 15th fastest time statewide at 1:08.80 in the 100-yard backstroke.